Lures

Poems

Adam Vines

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9780807177266
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

Written almost exclusively in traditional, modified, and nonce forms, the poems in Lures renegotiate grief, trauma, southern masculinities, and fatherhood with unflinching resolve. This new collection by Adam Vines draws much of its subject matter and imagery from fishing, revealing how close observations of species, spawning cycles, predation and feeding patterns, underwater topographies, water clarity, and lure choice reflect larger themes of what it means to be lured through memories of those who have passed and those who remain present. With Lures, Vines proposes that by reconstructing the stories from our past, we gain a greater understanding of our cultural identities and inheritances from those who made an impact on our lives.

contents

Maintenance for the Heartbroken

My Father’s Rod: Fishing the Skinny Moon

Tell Me a Story

My Father’s Trowel

River Elegy

Prayer for the New Acolyte

Lures

After Losing a Child

Squatter

Sunday

To the Scholar Who Explains His Poem to Me before He Writes It

The Drought

This Little Piggy

Tea Party

Question from a Bowl of Beans

Second-Grade Christmas Pageant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1976

Blinky

Morning Question in Bed after the Women’s Marches across America

Euphoria of Belief

Anti-Aubade

Coursing the Joints

Last Day at Brinkwood

The Hipster Pragmatist and the Emo Poet Blunt Their Teeth after Three Bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 and Adequate Sex

Blind

The Silents

“Infant Son, Born and Died May 3, 1872”

Invasives

Apprenticeship

At the Customer’s Request

Tithing Beers

Worm on the Hook

Remains

No Wake Zone

The Silent Stones

Sabbatical Poem [or] Time, You Mosaic of Clicking Ignitions and Broken Shoelaces

Collective Noun

Crab Stakes

Pigeons at Fat Sam’s

Two Views

The Golden Years

Memory Care

While Changing a Flat on My Boat Trailer

River Politics

Our Boat

Preservation for ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Maintenance for the Heartbroken
• My Father’s Rod: Fishing the Skinny Moon
• Tell Me a Story
• My Father’s Trowel
• River Elegy
• Prayer for the New Acolyte
• Lures
• After Losing a Child
• Squatter
• Sunday
• To the Scholar Who Explains His Poem to Me before He Writes It
• The Drought
• This Little Piggy
• Tea Party
• Question from a Bowl of Beans
• Second-Grade Christmas Pageant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1976
• Blinky
• Morning Question in Bed after the Women’s Marches across America
• Euphoria of Belief
• Anti-Aubade
• Coursing the Joints
• Last Day at Brinkwood
• The Hipster Pragmatist and the Emo Poet Blunt Their Teeth after Three Bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 and Adequate Sex
• Blind
• The Silents
• “Infant Son, Born and Died May 3, 1872”
• Invasives
• Apprenticeship
• At the Customer’s Request
• Tithing Beers
• Worm on the Hook
• Remains
• No Wake Zone
• The Silent Stones
• Sabbatical Poem [or] Time, You Mosaic of Clicking Ignitions and Broken Shoelaces
• Collective Noun
• Crab Stakes
• Pigeons at Fat Sam’s
• Two Views
• The Golden Years
• Memory Care
• While Changing a Flat on My Boat Trailer
• River Politics
• Our Boat
• Preservation for the Heartbroken